The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-30
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

THERE is revival of the talk about
another republican paper in Brattleboro.
A HORSE which had reached the age of
thirty-eight years has died in Burlington.
A LuMBER-DEALER of Duxbury states that
the snow in the woods about Camels Hump
is eight feet on the level.
Mrs. ALEXANDER MCDONALD of South
Royalton committed suicide by drowning
in the White river last week.
THE Young Mems Christian Association
of St. Johnsbury will net some 5000 from its
lecture course the past winter.
THERE are thirty-nine notaries public in
Lamoile county, one of whom is woman
and twenty-five are members of the bar.
A BOY choir of twelve voices is being
formed at Brattleboro for Easter, and it is
proposed to make it permanent institution.
HENRY ID. GILLETT, aged twenty-nine,
was killed Saturday by piece OF board
thrown by a circular-saw in his mill at
Hartford.
THE new iron stairways and walks in the
state prison at Windsor, for which 5000
were appropriated by the last legislature,
are now being put in.
STATES ATTORNEY BATES of Bennington
was hung in effgy on Saturday night by
irate liquor-dealers, for whom he has been
making il warm legally.
The Swanton Courier is ont with an illus
trated satire on the fire department of that
village, winch CONSISTS OF SuCUOH-pulnp
and several water-pails.
MoRrLLo MOVES of Burlington, supern-
tendent of the division of supplies in the
post-office department. has been appointed
chief of the bond division.
WHILE Bert Ransom of West Windsor
was taking the cars at Windsor, by some
misstep he fell, the car-wheel taking off the
bottom of one foot to the bone
VERMONT postmasters appointed: Herbert
10, xytpa A Intp Ia,
ms, removed; n. p. Bowman at st. Johns
bury, vice G. p. Carpenter, removed.
GEORGE EASTMAN NORRIS, a native of
Sutton, but now a manufacturer in Troy,
N. Y, has sold the right to manufacture his
patent match to persons in London, En-
gland, for 100000.
A BROKEN rail on the narrow gauge track
near Townshend threw box-car containing
COW and calf from the track, the other
night, killing one animal and blocking the
road for some hours.
W. II. II. MURRAY, formerly of the Park
street church, Boston, and the Adiron-
dacks, New York, is organizing an inland
yacht club in Burlington, and doubtless the
project will be a success.
LIST of old people in Guilford Center
shows twenty-four over eighty, of whom
Nathan Conant is in his ninety-sixth year,
Mrs. Samuel Ward is in her ninety-frst and
Mrs. Ezra Thayer in her ninetieth year.
DIR. E. G. JONES of Newark, n. j., who
lelS us we any! cliliulen d sToi IliIG aso
anu mas peen nvIng az ti.e Plock l1 Es'
has been arrested on the charge of adultery
SIDNEY PITKIN, an employee in j. H. Ash
worth's blanket factory of Hartland, while
tending the picker had his left hand caught
and drawn into the machine, mangling it in
such way as to necesState amputation be-
tween the wrist and elbow.
IF do m
,uENEKAL ELLIS oi .buiilHgton' president
OF the vermont Soldiers home, says tnat
tle oui i Vi, tiie 4 ARK place III neunihg
Sol VII oe leauS io 10. ooou panoy Wy niay -
oUlhe twenty ON soiuiGis have Vhus iar aP-
pilea lor auniissioh W tne hoine'
w. IL. BELL, forty-nine years old, OF Will
mington locked himself into room at
jerks u Rice's hotel at Hoosac Tunnel,
rTiuay, anu sno! illlhseIl ueau. ne ielo
teo.er ior nis "tIow aina iah dn "a "a Pr,
Clac.eu spree Is Vhe Prooaoie cause Vi Vhe
suioiue'
coLoRED woman, Adelia Thompson,
forty-nine years old, was arrested at Rut-
land recently. She had been threatening
people with loaded revolver. She claimed
to be private detective, and said that for
fourteen years man had been following
her, trying to murder her.
CHARLES ASHLEY of Ludlow, being ieal-
GUS of Willie Snow, followed Snow to the
railroad station and assaulted him, where
upon Snow shot at Ashley, hitting him in
his left side just over his heart. The bullet
struck rib and glanced down, doing no
great harm. Snow was taken to the lookup.
7. C.. WALLER. lately chief cook at the
Van Ness House. Burlington. has left for Az
rica. where he has been engaged as steward
and cook upon fine steamer Z Annie Tavlor y
which will NV the waters of the tTnner
COMO river in the interests of Rishon
Tavior,s missionary work in that land. Mr.
Waller is accomnanied Inv his wife
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now yloheE, q la i iiel apou. olhnty year.
nigbt He went To he'd as nsual. hut did
MOI resnond when called in the mornino and
at noon his room was broken into and he
was fonnd HING tn the hed-nost He had
lost a GOOD many sheen NV docs and This
and family tronhle ia sunnosed tn he the
canse
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FREIGHT business Is booming. one cause
pi Inls ~ saiu " Nc .ie commerce
pili, whlcn VIII 20 iuto elieco III thls section
april t. me manufacturing concerns anu
mar oie coinpaht M are orael,ns cars ioI WEST
ern Shipnent Oh eoous anu are sehulhg as
mtlch inaterlai DIS they can peIoIe tne law
taxes erect, one nrlh ~, III towm ordered over
Two weeks ago, SOME Weso oh0re cars, anu
they nave NOT aIrlVea yet' me rallroau
mand for cars. and still the freipht-yard has
been blocked almost every day for the last
ten days.-Rutldnd Herald.
AN order from President Smith Office an